CAVE EXPLORATION GROUP SOUTH Inc. PO Box 144 Rundle Mall, SA, 5000 http://www.cegsa.org.au

ANNUAL REPORT

2010

Fifty Fifth Annual Report

Presented to the Annual General Meeting held on Saturday 12th February 2011 at 22 Hogarth St. Panorama SA

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CAVE EXPLORATION GROUP SOUTH AUSTRALIA Inc. PO Box 144 Rundle Mall, SA, 5000 http://www.cegsa.org.au

PRESENTS THE

2010

ANNUAL REPORT

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CONTENTS Page

Reports 3

2010 Committee 4 2010 Office Bearers 4 2010 Representatives 4 President 5 2010 Awards 5 Secretary 6 Library and Records 7 Combined OZKARST and Articles Database 9 Publications 9 Membership 10 Equipment 10 Key Holder 10 Website 10 Logbook 11 Safety 11 Training 11 Search and Rescue 11 ASF 11 SA Speleo Council 12 Public Officer 12 Trip Leaders 12 Privacy of Information Statement 13

Caving Activities 14

Adelaide Hills 15 Eyre Peninsula 15 Flinders Ranges 15 Kangaroo Island 15 Lower South East 16 Murray Plains 16 Nullarbor Plains 16 Torrens 17 Upper South East 17 Yorke Peninsula 17 17 Interstate and Overseas 20

Financial Statements 21

Income Statement 22 Expenditure Statement 23 Balance Sheet 24 Treasurer's Statement 25 Auditors Report 25 Income and Expenditure Graphs 26

Membership and Mailing Lists 27

Membership List 28 Membership Code 30 Publication Exchange 31 Publication Gifts 32

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REPORTS

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2010 COMMITTEE President Mark Sefton

Secretary/ Public Officer / Library & Records Graham Pilkington

Museum Representative Neville Pledge

Treasurer / Membership Chris Gibbons

New Member Liaison Ian Lewis

New Member Liaison Marie Choi

Ken Smith

2010 OFFICE BEARERS Publications / Logbook / Website Athol Jackson

Quartermaster / Key and GPS Holder Paul Harper

Search and Rescue Richard (Harry) Harris

Training / Safety Tim Payne

Landowner Liaison (records) Garry Woodcock

All Trip Leaders see list on p12

2010 AREA COORDINATORS Nullarbor Plain, Yorke Peninsula, Murray Mallee, Torrens, Eyre Peninsula, Graham Pilkington Gawler ranges, Pitjandjara Lands (NW of SA)

Upper & Lower S E (dry), Glenelg River Kevin Mott

Lower S E (wet) Peter Horne

Adelaide & Kangaroo Island Grant Gartrell

Flinders Eddie Rubessa

2010 REPRESENTATIVES Australian Speleological Federation Graham Pilkington

S.A. Speleological Council Graham Pilkington

Nullarbor Karst Project Steering Committee (WA) Paul Hosie

Kanawinka Geopark Liaison Ian Lewis

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PRESIDENT'S REPORT CEGSA continues to be an active, if ageing, club. Our members have been busy locally as well as interstate and overseas as you will see from the various reports herein. Our numbers remain reasonably healthy, although active participation in both General and Committee meetings has sometimes been disappointing with the result that many have been inquorate. If this trend continues then it might be necessary to further amend our Constitution so that those members who are still active are able to conduct the business of the club. It would certainly help if more members were prepared to serve on the Committee. One of the things in which CEGSA differs from all other clubs that I have been a member of in the past is that most trips tend to be organised by individuals rather than by the club as a whole. Indeed, the paucity of ‘club meets’ in our program – a standard feature of many caving clubs – is one of the things that, I believe, makes it hard to keep newer members interested. This is something that I would like to see the new Committee try and improve on in 2011. During the year, CEGSA conducted the first Search and Rescue exercise in many years, enabled by Ross Anderson from Western Australia with the assistance of Richard Harris, Marie Choi and Graham Pilkington. This was a great success and brought many of our members together with a few from other clubs for what was a most enjoyable weekend. It would be nice to see this become an annual event at the very least. I would like to thank those members who continue to shoulder most of the burden of running CEGSA, in particular Chris Gibbons for keeping our finances and membership records firmly under control, Athol Jackson for producing our Newsletters, Annual Reports and publishing and distribution of the ASF Conference Proceedings, and Graham Pilkington for taking over the production of the Proceedings of the ASF Conference held in Mt Gambier after what must have been more than a hundred hours of his time. I would also like to acknowledge Graham and Fred Aslin for the enormous amount of work they have put into and continue to put into, preserving our records in digital form. Finally, to those of you who do all sorts of things on behalf of our Group but of which I remain blissfully unaware, I would also like to say ‘Thanks’.

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2010 AWARDS Certificate of Merit

Chris Gibbons

For cooking up something to finish off each meeting.

Certificate of Merit

Peter Ackroyd

For his industrious research, subsequent field work, and detailed reports on Nullarbor features and their history.

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Award of Distinction

The Award of Distinction is given to persons who have dedicated an outstanding amount of time and effort to the advancement of speleology, caving or CEGSA.

Presented on 12th February 2011 to

Fred Aslin

Fred has spent his whole life collecting biological specimens of species found in and around caves, especially mosses and snails for which he is recognised as an Australian expert. He has also catalogued biological information about South Australian caves that has been written up in scientific journals and theses. These data are being entered into CEGSA’s OzKarst so that information from his 60 years of collections and research will be available to all. Some samples from his collection have become type-specimens held at the SA Museum.

He’s also been instrumental in generating and maintaining a group of cavers in the lower south east of South Australia. Some of these cavers later joined and became long term members of CEGSA. He always emphasises to these individuals the need to document what is done and encourages the speleological aspect of caving, especially the need to survey every cave visited. Fred has been the focal point of cave search and rescue in the south east and the Police have requested his help on many occasions.

Over the last decade, Fred has created a list of every article that he can find on caves, caving, and people associated with caves. This was initially restricted to newspapers of the lower south east of SA but has since been expanded to cover all of South Australia. This coverage now includes Victoria and to a lesser degree, the other States and even a smattering of overseas newspapers. Articles are now extracted from any published source (excluding caving and speleological journals) including magazines and tourist information. He has absorbed all of the CEGSA Records Speleo Oddities clippings. Fred spends several weeks every year ensconced in the Adelaide and Melbourne State Newspaper libraries just so that he can chase down references to published articles. These libraries have become so used to his presence that the librarians even refer caving articles to Fred. The SA Library keeps a copy of Fred’s list to use as a reference source in answering questions from the public about caves.

Mark Sefton -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- SECRETARY REPORT We had a very interesting set of General Meeting events this year. If you didn’t attend then you missed out on the following:

A surveying workshop by Tim Payne Cave search and recovery by Harry Harris A demo of the new OzKarst, including the GIS component A demo of the 26th ASF Conference DVD by Athol Jackson Photos of Gloop and Punyelroo caves by Neville Skinner ACKMA Conference videos, including some in MULU cave by Grant Gartrell A talkfest on past caving led by Ian Lewis A video on collecting Nullarbor blowhole data by Peter Ackroyd A video on Crystal Caves of Abaco shown by Ken Smith A video on diving in the Blue Holes of the Bahamas by Ken Smith A video on the demise of the Australian Megafauna A summary of the CROP weekend including photos and video by Harry Harris A demo of the CEGSA Articles database A video on the Ice Caves of Austria Presentation was made of the distinctive maps of caves known to have been created by hydrogen sulphide. The similarity to the Corra Lynn Cave map was noted.

Graham Pilkington

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LIBRARY AND RECORDS REPORT The major work for 2010 was:

Maps All 1501 CEGSA original physical maps (some display several independent caves) are in electronic image format, but 176 of these have not been assembled into single images. Initially the scanning for maps larger than A3 was going to be done commercially, however, most of these maps are “unique” in that each required its own scan setting to best extract the drawing. This was because of the large selection of bits of paper, plastic etc that was used to draw on as well as the aging of the material. Several of the maps were 2A0 in size, that is, 2m2 or twice A0! Cave maps that were drawn using several sheets are being assembled into a single image for ease of use on the computer. The OzKarst map index still needs to be completed.

Ideally, all of our survey data and maps should be computerised into a form suitable for manipulation on the computer. This would enable easy adjustment of the maps to correct for errors and to add extra passages or contents. Scale changes could also be made while keeping the text readable! Any volunteers?

The Karst database (OzKarst) OzKarst was further adjusted to suit karst from anywhere in Australia. Karst outcrops are now handled that will enable us to group caves along things like sand-ridges in the south east and outcrops in the Flinders Ranges. The database has a full GIS component using the free ESRI ArcReader for display. The coast, roads, rivers, rail and other “layers” are generally supplied at a broad scale, but fine detail in selected areas can be added as the data become available.

The biological section has been expanded to better cater to our data. More entries have been added to cover Australian birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and snails. Many of these have distribution maps available. However, many extinct (palaeological) species have yet to be added.

Minutes All available CEGSA minutes have been scanned. Most minutes prior to 1989 are in image format, whereas those after then are usually textural. From 1968, there have been 1005 meetings (44 Annual, 454 General, 500 Committee, 1 Extraordinary, and 6 special meetings) with 980 of these having had minutes recorded (on many occasions, if no quorum was present no minutes were taken). 488 of the 980 minutes are in text-readable format.

The minutes can be grouped into the following: 1955-1967 No minutes available except for some personal notes made on “agenda” sheets by Alan Hill. It’s probable that one or two minute books are missing with properties as per the following. 1968-1974 Minutes of all meetings were hand-written directly into a single book in chronological order. Only the one copy was produced. Corrections to minutes were noted in subsequent minutes but there is no indication in the original minutes that they were IN ERROR and only accepted AFTER the corrections are applied. 1974-1988 Minutes were hand-written into two streams of books – one for Committee meetings and one for General and Annual General meetings. Only the one copy was produced. 1989-1992 Minutes were typed then pasted into the minute books. Extra copies of the minutes exist as personal printouts. 1992-present Minutes typed then placed into ring-folders. Extra copies of the minutes are held by individuals. Corrections to minutes retro-typed into previous minutes so that only the accepted minutes, not the DRAFT minutes, are present (however, personal copies are usually the uncorrected drafts). Future The Minutes will be bound into hard covers as well as kept electronically. All minutes will show the ACCEPED minutes so that there is no confusion. Typing of the minutes into readable text is

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on hold while higher-priority tasks are undertaken. Some of the past minutes are in handwriting that may need the original author to translate!

Periodicals There are 197 Periodical titles in our library, not including Newspaper titles (for which we only hold clippings). The binding project continued with 26 more covers including another 4 extra titles in 19 covers. Total bound:

organization P# periodical title bound out of note

complete CEGSA 1-1 Annual Report 6 6 2 sets complete CEGSA 1-2 NEWS 18 18 2 sets complete ACKMA 11 Journal 10 10 complete ASF 7 Caves Australia 13 13 2 sets complete ASF 13 Helictite 14 14 BCRA 73-1 Caves and Caving 3 13 defunct complete BCRA 73-4 Compass Points 2 2 England BCRA 73-5 Cave Radio and Electronics 2 6 England complete BCRA 73-8 Speleology 1 1 England BMSC 15 Oolite 5 7 complete CAVEX 3 Cave In 2 2 defunct Chelsea SS 75 Newsletter 6 21 England complete CI Magazine 68 Caving International 3 3 defunct CRGGB 74-1 Newsletter 7 11 England, defunct complete CRGGB 74-3 Numbered Publications 3 3 England, defunct complete CSIRO 54-2 ECOS 4 4 environmental complete CSS 8 The Very Latest 3 3 FHKF 81 Der Frankische Hohlenspiegel 3 7 Germany complete FUSSI 2 FUSSI 2 2 GBPE 142 O CARSTE 4 8 Brazil MUCG 23 MUCG Raker 2 3 defunct complete Northern CC 79 The Caver 1 1 England, defunct NSS 135 NEWS 38 60 USA complete OSS 28 Descent 1 1 complete PNGCEG 37 Niugini Caver 5 5 defunct complete Speleologist 76 The Speleologist 2 2 defunct SSS 32-1 Journal 54 56 SSS 32-2 Australian Speleo Abstracts 2 ? SUSS 33-3 Bulletin 11 22 complete SCS, STC 44 Southern Caver 5 5 complete TCC, STC 45 Speleo Spiel 15 15 complete TCKRG 46 Journal 1 1 defunct UNSWSS 34 Spar 9 10 UQSS 40 Down Under 4 9 defunct VSA 50-1 Nargun 19 20 VSA 50-2 Annual Report 2 2 complete WASG 53 Western Caver 16 16 William Pengelly 80 Studies in Speleology 4 4 England ZKH 83-2 Die Hohle 5 14 German

22 comp. 39 titles 307 402

Newspaper and other Published Articles Fred Aslin has reported on this elsewhere. The database was expanded in scope to handle such things as Edition and Section of the newspaper; relevance to caving; searching by scan number; and description of maps, sketches and other images besides photographs, and their individual relevance to karst/caves/caving/cavers.

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Also Note CEGSA Records obtained the help of 2 students for a few weeks in November and December (using money donated by the ASF and a special allowance by CEGSA) to scan periodicals, maps, minutes, articles, photographs, Speleo Oddities, and biological information including distribution maps.

Graham Pilkington. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- COMBINED OZKARST & ARTICLES DATABASE REPORT Two days after the 2010 AGM I obtained the services of a Data Entry person to input the Biological component of OzKarst for South East caves. This lasted till mid April when she shifted to Adelaide to live. There was a gap in data entry until August when I obtained the services of a local man. It took till Mid August to complete all the data on the 535 ‘L’ Caves. It may be difficult for people not involved in the biological sciences to appreciate that approximately 10% of our time on this project was spent solving higher order taxonomic problems on the items we needed to enter. Indeed there are still a small number of unsolved ‘difficult’ problems we are waiting for expert help with.

Graham has the long term aim of fully integrating the Articles database into OzKarst, but the Articles component has not only grown from the 6500 of last year, to the present 7200, but it is also now much more comprehensive.

Of the 302 Publications (Newspapers, Magazines, Journals etc) in the database, 249 now have their history added. This has been thanks to the efforts of our daughter-in-law and Jeanette, and of the total 2674 scans that have been done (77 articles make use of scans that have already been referred to) many have been added to the database here in Mount Gambier to supplement those previously entered by Graham.

Again to cavers not involved or interested in history, it must be difficult to comprehend the amount of time and money that goes into problem solving and correcting errors. My sincere thanks must go to the Librarians in Mount Gambier , Adelaide , Melbourne , and Online, to the cavers both in S A and the eastern states, to the Council officers & my friends, all of whom have fielded such a diverse range of requests from me, with patience and good grace.

The present quality of this resource is very much the result of a team effort. My thanks go to the CEGSA committee who have supported me financially, as the value in dollars of the work done this year must add up to a substantial amount. Let’s hope in this next year we can complete the Biological data component for the remaining caves I still have to do, and add a lot more scans.

It amazes me that one of my associates did a “Cave” search in one of the Newspapers Online search engines, and got 102,000 items!! This is more than my lifetime.

Fred Aslin. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- PUBLICATIONS REPORT Four issues of Vol. 55 of CEGSA NEWS were published this year in February, May, August and November (a combined total of 100 pages) as well as the Annual Report for the AGM in February. The index to Vol. 55 will appear in Vol. 56 No. 1 (hopefully). The Proceedings of the ASF Conference held at Mt. Gambier was also published this year. Spare copies are available for sale in both printed and DVD format. There has been a good quantity of high quality material submitted and some items have had to be held for later issues. CEGSA NEWS continues to be available on the website for those members that have indicated they would prefer to receive it electronically. It would be advantageous to both the Group and members to take this option as it saves money for members as well as CEGSA and you get the CEGSA NEWS in full colour as well. If you want a hard copy you can print your own and get better photo quality than the photocopied version.

Athol Jackson.

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MEMBERSHIP REPORT 2007 2008 2009 2010

Honorary Life Members 14 14 14 14

Full Members 36 37 40 37

Long Term Associates 7 4 2 9

Associate Members 5 5 14 10

Total Individual Members 62 66 70 70

Family Members 16 13 17 15

Newsletter Subscribers 1 1 0 0

Newsletter Exchange 35 35 32 33

Newsletter Gifts 13 13 13 13

Newsletter Advertisers 0 0 0 0

3 Month Introductory Members 92 67 56 45

Total 219 194 188 176

Chris Gibbons. Membership Officer. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- EQUIPMENT REPORT Another quiet year. Our helmets were loaned out for a couple of trips, our vertical gear and a rope were given to the Training Officer on long term loan for training he was conducting throughout the year. There was no damage to any gear and nothing was bought or retired. There were no donations for the use of the gear.

Paul Harper. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- KEYHOLDER REPORT Only a few keys loaned for Flinders Ranges Caves, there were no other keys used. There were no expenses this year.

Paul Harper. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- WEBSITE REPORT The website continues to provide members with the newsletter to download in full colour and also provides information to the general public as well as members. There is now available on the website information relating to changes to various ASF Guidelines. As new information on trips and other happenings become available the calendar is updated and members and others can see what is on when. The next meeting dates for the 3 month period is on the homepage and at the top of the calendar.

Athol Jackson.

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LOGBOOK REPORT The logbook has continued to operate successfully with 5 entries of trips other than those advertised either in the program or at meetings. Most of these were cave diving trips.

Athol Jackson. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- SAFETY REPORT There have been no reported incidents during the year.

Tim Payne. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- TRAINING REPORT It has been a quiet year from the training perspective due mainly to other commitments that I have had; however there have been a small number of SRT training sessions, there was some mapping training and some cave rescue training organised by Richard Harris.

Tim Payne. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- SEARCH AND RESCUE OFFICERS REPORT Incidents: No significant incidents or accidents occurred during 2010.

Equipment: 2 Michie phones and 3 diver phones (can be used as Michies) held by Richard Harris. Through ground cave radio held by Paul Harper (CEGSA quartermaster). One very heavy drag mat held by FUSSI. There is an urgent need for a confined space stretcher to be made or purchased. The ASF has approved $5000 to be used for equipment purchases around Australia and I a hopeful that SA will get at least $1000 of this, but we will need to fundraise a further $1000 (it will be dispersed on a dollar for dollar basis). This should complete our immediate communications and stretcher requirements.

Inter-service liaison: During 2010 I held meetings with the SAPOL Star group, Water Response Unit and met with members of the SES. Volunteer caver contact lists are now held by me for both dry and sump rescue in SA, and a Primary Caver Contact List is held by SAPOL and the SES. This will be updated annually.

Training: The first Cave Rescue Orientation Program (CROP) was run in SA in 2010, which resulted in 14 members of CEGSA and FUSSI completing this introductory course. These members all have a much better understanding of cave rescue organisation and basic procedures. In 2011 I hope to organise a major paper exercise with the Star Group and SES based on a Nullarbor Cave incident, and a sump rescue in conjunction with the CDAA and Water response Unit in Mt Gambier. FUSSI are discussing holding a further CROP in modules over the course of the year. If you would like to be a volunteer listed on the rescue call out list, or would like your name removed from the list, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Richard Harris. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- ASF REPRESENTATIVE REPORT The Proceedings of the 26th ASF Conference that was held in Mount Gambier in January 2007 were published in both hardcopy and DVD formats. The DVD version includes extras such as complete PowerPoint versions of most of the presentations, some short movies, and several of the evening presentations not included in the formal sessions.

OzKarst became the official name of the ASF version of our KIDSA. The ASF is considering how to implement OzKarst nationally. This includes some re-organization of karst Areas so that all Australia is covered; removal of duplicated spatial coverage by different karst codes (such as in NSW where they had limestone caves with one code and non-limestone caves with another code OVER THE SAME AREA!); and rationalizing Areas into logical entities without using magical lines on maps that cannot be

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Graham Pilkington -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SPELEOLOGICAL COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE REPORT No meetings were held this year.

Following changes to the University Union membership scheme enacted by the Federal Government, The Flinders University Speleological Society are now using the ASF insurance coverage and have regained access to caves such as Corra Lynn.

Graham Pilkington -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- PUBLIC OFFICER REPORT Changes to our Constitution were made this year. Initially it was to clarify the requirement for the Publications Officer to submit to the Committee material proposed for publication, but the Office of Business and Consume Affairs had other ideas. It appears that since our Constitution was accepted 35 yeas ago, they have adopted a more stringent requirement on Constitutions. They must define what can be done by the management body of an Incorporated body. This probably follows a court case or two! All we had to do was add in a list that defines the scope, which was a simple matter of quoting their definition. It was also necessary to define how members could resign.

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APPROVED CEGSA TRIP LEADERS

Name Caving Leader level Marie Choi Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical Stan Flavel Horizontal and Laddering Grant Gartrell Nil Chris Gibbons Nil Damian Grindley Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical Paul Harper Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical Richard Harris Horizontal Lance Hoey Horizontal and Laddering Peter Horne Horizontal and Laddering Paul Hosie Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical Peter Kraehenbuehl Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical Ian Lewis Horizontal and Laddering George MacLucas Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical June MacLucas Horizontal Tim Payne Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical Graham Pilkington Horizontal and Laddering Phil Prust Horizontal and Laddering Eddie Rubessa Horizontal and Laddering Mark Sefton Horizontal and Laddering Gary Woodcock Horizontal and Laddering Michael Woodward Horizontal, Laddering and Vertical

All the above named are also CEGSA Trip Coordinators. Members may query the classification of any Trip Leader at any time with the committee. It is a requirement that each trip be organised by an approved Trip Coordinator to be classed as an official CEGSA trip. It is also a requirement that dependent party trips be led by an approved Trip Leader at the appropriate skill level for the cave being entered.

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PRIVACY OF INFORMATION STATEMENT This privacy statement has been prepared in order to demonstrate the commitment of CEGSA Inc. to protect the personal privacy of its members.

No superfluous Data Collection

* CEGSA aims to collect as little information as it can; only collecting the data which is necessary to maintain and improve its service to members.

Collection of Personal Information

* Information will be collected by means of registration or application for membership forms provided to prospective members and current members.

* Information will not be collected by the club without the member’s consent.

What personally identifiable information will be collected?

* Your name, address, telephone numbers and Email address.

The period for which the information will be held.

* For as long as the Group requires the information.

The information collected may be used for the following purposes.

* To send you CEGSA NEWS and other club information.

* To register you with the Australian Speleological Federation.

* To be published in the CEGSA Annual Report.

* As a means of contact by other members.

* To identify any contributions a member has made to the Group.

* To follow up on any data collected or any item borrowed from the Group, even after leaving the Group.

Disclosure of personal information

* If you do not wish to have your contact details published in the Annual Report or CEGSA NEWS you must request same in writing to the Group.

* In the unlikely event of an investigation it will, however, provide information to a law enforcement agency, if they have exercised a warrant for the inspection of its records.

Security

* CEGSA uses reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to it, secure.

Accountability

* CEGSA offers members the opportunity to view all information that it maintains about them and to have any inaccuracies in this information corrected. It may ask for identification in the interest of security.

Notification of Changes

* If CEGSA decides to change its privacy policy, it will post the changes in CEGSA NEWS so that all its members are always aware of what information it collects, how it is used and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.

Contact us

* If, at any time, you believe CEGSA has not adhered to its stated policy, please contact the Secretary, in person, or by mail to its Postal Address: PO Box 144, Rundle Mall, SA 5000.

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CAVING ACTIVITIES

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ADELAIDE HILLS & FLEURIEU PENINSULA No trips to Reynella Quarry Cave, Myponga or Carrickalinga have been reported this year. There was some discussion of continuation of the survey of Reynella Quarry Cave, and a visit was planned, but did not eventuate.

There has been no apparent progress with the mooted protection of the Field River valley within which Reynella Cave occurs. On the other hand, housing development is continuing to encroach on the old quarry within which the cave lies. It is a great pity that those with the resources to clean up the feral olives in this area and establish a much needed linear park do not appear to share the vision of those who have been trying to make it happen. Meanwhile the area remains a haven for graffiti artists and illicit trail bike riders.

A couple of small trips have been held to Delamere. Despite a wet winter the conditions for observing copious influx of water into various sinks did not occur, so the digging has been desultory rather than frantic, and only slight progress made.

The really disappointing feature of work in the Adelaide region this year has been the lack of attention to Sellicks Hill. It has been quite hard to drum up interest in the rock hauling trips necessary to continue exploration in the known caves of this area. Virtually no underground activity has taken place in either 5A5 or 5A25 this year, despite the predicted 1.5 million cubic metre potential of this system. CEGSA is in the lucky position of having so many exploratory projects available in so many regions of the state, that its manpower is easily spread too thin, and some of the opportunities closest to Adelaide tend to be put on the back burner, which may turn out in the long term not to be the best policy.

Grant Gartrell. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- EYRE PENINSULA No trips were reported.

Graham Pilkington -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- FLINDERS RANGES The only trips reported to the Flinders Ranges were trips to Woodendinna cave and an exploratory diving trip to Sliding Rock Mine on Warraweena Wildlife Sanctuary property by Richard Harris and Ken Smith.

Eddie Rubessa. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- KANGAROO ISLAND One CEGSA visit to Kangaroo Island took place this year, although the projected diving trip to Robert Smith’s caves has yet to occur.

The main focus of this visit was further work in the sinkholes near the 20 minute walking track. A persistent and dedicated party managed to follow a strong breeze in one hole through some constrictions into a new small chamber in which the way on would appear to follow the path of a small dry streamway down through the floor. The general nature of the area is best described as a multitude of sinks with some underground interlinking rockpile chambers, and so much air flow in some places that clearly a great deal more awaits discovery.

A familiarization visit was also made to a sea cave to the east of Remarkable Rocks, and the usual thoughts of carrying out a more extensive investigation of other possible features along the coastline were briefly stimulated and once again safely buried under the mountain of other exciting but unfinished Kangaroo Island projects.

Grant Gartrell.

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LOWER SOUTH EAST (Dry) Caves numbered 4 Features recorded 1 Latest number L536

The main caving activity in the area was the annual bat count conducted in June. CEGSA members assisted DEH staff. The numbers recorded were comparable to last year . This is a good sign as it indicates the numbers are not declining dramatically. Hopefully the wet seasons may help to increase food supply and the bat numbers. Western Victoria was also included in the count but there still seems to be a gap between the winter numbers and the summer numbers.

Engelbrecht Cave has had a facelift and now has a new operator who has a passion for the cave and is eager to promote it. 2011 will see 25 years of guiding at the cave.

Excavations for a house site on the edge of Mount Gambier unearthed a small cave. The owner is unsure whether to fill the hole or utilise it as a wine cellar. Torrential rain in Jan 2011 resulted in a collapse in Arkuna Reserve in Mount Gambier. This reserve has collapsed previously. Sand under the volcanic ash layer is being eroded by stormwater causing the collapses. Council will now divert the stormwater to another portion of the reserve.

Kilsby Sinkhole saw the death of a cave diver earlier in the year. Results of the inquest will be published in due course. Ian Lewis assisted the Highways Dept with investigations around at Tantanoola. A bypass lane is proposed and there were concerns the lane may be over a cavity. Tests indicated the road is unlikely to be affected by any cavity.

Piccaninnie Ponds conservation Park has been extended. The grasslands adjacent to the border and Pics Swamp on the western side have been added.

A number of local and international Rover Scouts visited caves in the South East after Christmas as part of Oz Moot.

Location details and new caves are being progressively added to Ozkarst.

Kevin Mott. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- MURRAY PLAINS Trips went to Punyelroo and Gloop Caves.

Graham Pilkington. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- NULLARBOR PLAINS New Data The VSA trip of April was again the Ken Boland flying circus; the data are still to arrive. However, the data from the 2009 VSA trip has arrived. Peter Ackroyd and Ray Gibbons made two trips and supplied the bulk of the other new data. A few diving trips occurred as noted elsewhere.

And the result of all this activity was a huge increase in N numbers (excluding the 2010 VSA trip).

Totals There are now 11414 Nullarbor area karst codes in use (removing artificial, biological, duplicated, and fictitious features) comprising:

N = features 4957 up 638 NX = possible features 614 up 3 NXK = Ken Boland’s points of interest 1085 down 64 NXP = Paul Devine’s points of interest 4534 up 10 NX? = other X’s 224 up 37

Entrance photos total 8827 covering 3810 features and using 5.1 Gigabytes (mostly N).

Graham Pilkington.

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TORRENS No trips reported.

Graham Pilkington. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- UPPER SOUTH EAST Caves numbered 0 Features recorded 0 Latest number U248

Like the Lower South East the winter bat count took place in June using DEH staff and members of Friends of Naracoorte Caves. Marie also ran a trip to the Avenue Range area in June.

The Sand Cave property has been purchased by Dept of Environment and will most likely be added to the caves reserve. A trip was run to the cave in October to remove some of the rubbish from the blocked entrance window.

Following the heavy rains in Jan 2011 there have been reports of collapses in the area.

The Rover Scout Oz Moot also visited caves in the Naracoorte region.

Kevin Mott. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- YORKE PENINSULA 6 trips were made to Corra Lynn Cave of which 2 were for schools, 1 was the Cave Rescue training weekend, and 1 was by FUSSI. No progress has been made on stabilising Curramulka Town Well Cave but discussions with the local Council are advancing with help from NPWS and the SA Museum.

Graham Pilkington. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-

CAVE DIVING IN SA

TWENTY-TEN was an interesting year as far as South Australian cave diving activities were concerned, with a number of key discoveries being made among the many hundreds of dives that were undertaken safely in the waterfilled caves and sinkholes of the Mount Gambier region and at a handful of other sites in the Nullarbor and Flinders Ranges (refer to recent issues of CEGSA News re Warbla and Weebubbie cave and Flinders visits). Since it has been many years since anyone has written up the overall situation regarding Mount Gambier’s numerous divable features, I thought I should take this opportunity to provide a brief update of recently-visited features for our records. I’d also like to especially thank my cave diving mates Matthew Skinner, Neville Skinner, James Atwell and Adam Hair (identified as Matt, Nev, James and Adam respectively in the following report) for providing a lot of information based on their personal observations which enabled the following data to be recorded.

In recent months and along with most other popularly-visited caves and , the water level at One Tree Sinkhole (5L7, “Wurwurkooloo”) has risen to the highest level divers have seen for 15 years or so. Overall the sinkhole appears to be in good health, with considerable numbers of galaxiids (those long skinny little fishy things), yabbies and white freshwater sponges being sighted. One Tree’s “colder sister” Ela Elap (5L14) has however unfortunately been closed to cave divers for some time due to landowner-related issues, as have the sinkholes on Barnoolut Estate including Ten-Eighty (Simpson’s Hole, 5L42), The Black Hole (5L47), The Bullock Hole (5L163) and the biologically-significant Woolwash Cave (5L48), four of the region’s most important and spectacular features. The adjacent Rubbish Cave (5L45) with its two lakes, rare ferns and syncarids etc also no longer exists, having reportedly been filled in so efficiently in 2003 or thereabouts that there is absolutely no sign of ground discolouration or a depression visible via “Google Earth” images.

Gouldens Hole (5L8) is still used as the key cave diving training venue by the Cave Divers Association of Australia Inc (CDAA), and the nearby Little (5L9) continues to be a very popular

Page 18 CEGSA 2010 Annual Report swimming hole for local youngsters (mainly from Mount Gambier city, many of whom leave a lot of rubbish behind), although it also suffers from blue-green algae pollution concerns in the warmer months. Reports from divers during the past year or so mainly referred to how dirty the water was at depth and how many large introduced redfin perch and dead yabbies they continue to find during their dives, and it is hoped that the Council’s recent removal of a key suspected contributor towards the poor underwater visibility (a large hay bale which was illegally “rolled” from the adjacent paddock into the sinkhole by “lads” some 3 years or so ago - pers comm Malcolm Kilsby) will soon result in a dramatic improvement in water clarity.

Adam also reported that the old Morris 1100 is still there (albeit just a rusting hulk now) along with the old petrol bowser, road signs, witches hats, “no diving/no standing” signs and “one of those yellow flashing lights that the council uses to hang on signs on the roads etc”, and interestingly he felt that the silt level on the floor of the sinkhole has “increased substantially”, although he wasn’t sure whether this was a real effect (possibly as a result of the adjacent road’s stormwater drainage into the sinkhole) or simply from “just being narked”!

Allendale Sinkhole (5L11) in the middle of the road in Allendale East is still occasionally dived and in recent times the water has been rising considerably here as well. A few divers continue to grovel around the edges of the unstable mound of rubble fill in an effort to find some way into “the other side” (assuming that it still exists!) and I am working on some early plans to provide for much better diver and tourist parking and access in the near future. In contrast, The Three Sisters Cave (5L13) out near the old Tantanoola Forest HQ is visited very rarely, which I think is a real shame because it’s a lovely feature with large flooded rooms and depths of up to 30 metres – much more interesting than many of the other popularly-dived sinkholes, and a place remaining to be properly explored and mapped.

Engelbrechts Cave (5L19/5L20) has recently changed hands and is now being run by Brenton and Kemelee Lynch-Rhodes, who really love the cave and are doing a very good job improving its amenity for both tourists and cave divers. They are also keen to obtain “older-style” cave that divers would have used in the cave during the 1970s and ‘80s for their display. Unlike most of the other popular caves of the region the water level here does not seem to be rising much, if at all (and in fact a number of cave divers have said that they believe it is still dropping!). The question has also been raised about whether recent diversions of roadway stormwater by the Council might have something to do with it; personally I very much doubt this because the cave is directly connected to the water table (hence why its water is so clear), and it needs to be remembered that Blue Lake’s water level has also been dropping so much that they were recently forced to restructure the pumping station's pontoon to enable it to draw many metres deeper from the lake. Our very own Mount Gambier groundwater expert Kevin Mott (Department for Water, south east region) has also informed me that the road stormwater has NOT in fact been “diverted” from Engelbrechts Cave; a small non-functioning drainage bore had been backfilled and the rest were still functioning as before. In addition, Kevin mentioned how water levels around cave entrances can briefly rise substantially for some time after very heavy rains (e.g. the rapid filling of Cave Gardens recently) before they drop back to an equilibrium state. It’s all rather confusing!...

Matt also told me that based on a map of Engelbrechts East which I had sent to him some time ago from some sketches made when it was first dived, he noticed a strange tunnel which he had never seen, and because the water level had dropped so much he had asked another cave diver to check the cave in that location and to pay special attention a few metres up the wall above the waterline. This check confirmed that there was indeed a now-dry tunnel there which was around 30 metres in length, ending in collapses with another dry lead going off (which “looked to be hairy climbing up and into it, so I did not enter to look”!), so there is still further exploration to be done here at a later date. One unexpected “benefit” of the lower water level in Engelbrechts was that it enabled renowned cave diving film-maker Andrew Wight to get tons of great watery sound effects for his soon-to-be released 3D cave diving thriller, “Sanctum”, because his team and I were able to reach drop-points which would otherwise not have been easily accessible (Wighty had earlier visited the Mount to obtain underwater and caving footage in The Shaft (5L158) and 5L66 nearby, and it was real fun recording all of the film’s “dry” and “wet” cave sound effects for Sanctum in The Pines (5L61) and several Naracoorte caves ... a special “thank you” again to Steve Bourne for all his help here as well). Several months after our little recording project at Pines, Forestry SA installed a rather impressive metal stairway (with handrails!) there, leading directly to the water’s edge. James also reported finding a number of large freshwater

CEGSA 2010 Annual Report Page 19 crayfish (along with common yabbies) in the cave, and Adam noted that someone had unsuccessfully attempted to cut through a rock in the “chimney” area leading into the CCR Room in an effort to make it wider.

Out in the Caroline Forest, Hells Hole (5L40) was visited by at least one group of cave divers during the year, but nothing significant has been reported, and on one of my own non-diving touristy trips to the south east with overseas friends I was surprised to find that the old access tracks through the pines had been blocked with large limestone boulders so as to stop hooligans from dumping cars and trailer-loads of rubbish into the cave (in June 2008 two cave divers also reportedly found a couple of loaded shotguns in the sinkhole). But it is still well worth the short walk through that lovely forest just to see this cave from the impressive viewing platform which was put in place there by Forestry SA back in 2003!...

The always-impressive Kilsbys Hole (5L46) is still a major drawcard for the Mount Gambier region, and I continue to feel both a sense of great satisfaction and considerable pride in my role as a key player in helping to make this spectacular sinkhole to become available to cave divers again after its closure in April 1969 as a result of a tragic double-fatality (the long-negotiated reopening was only made possible through the generosity of the wonderful Kilsby family and the efforts of the handful of cave divers with whom I worked during the mid to late 1980s). The sinkhole is basically a gigantic “hole full of rain” and Ian Lewis and I intend to do some more geomorphological and environmental dives there in the near future as part of Lewy’s studies on formation in that area. Recent dives by James also resulted in the sighting of syncarids but he couldn’t find any free-swimming (introduced) fish in the feature, so hopefully they might have been fished out!

Sadly, the sinkhole also became the site of the country’s first cave diving fatality in 26 years in March, when a Victorian diver reportedly became entangled at depth and drowned when his air supplies ran out (the matter is still to be investigated by the State Coroner). An additional unfortunate outcome of this tragedy from a speleological perspective was that some landowners subsequently filled in a number of their caves out of concern about liability issues which were raised as a direct result of this accident.

In April and May, Richard Harris (aka Doctor Harry) organised another trip to undertake further exploration work in Piccaninnie Ponds (5L72) and the surrounding wetlands, mainly to tidy up work which he, Grant Pearce, Ken Smith, myself and several others had begun in 2008/‘09. Key aims included recalibrating sensors and continuing the exploration and mapping of The Cathedral and some other small features such as Turtle Pond Cave. And Fossil Cave (5L81) also came up with some surprises during the past two years; important fossils retrieved by Matt, Nev and Mark Nielsen were identified by Gavin Prideaux (Flinders University) as being the jaw of a Palorchestes which he said looked like a “completely new species based on details of its dental anatomy”, and Matt also reported sighting a free-swimming fish in the cave! This really got my attention because (a) to my knowledge none had ever been seen there before, and (b) they could decimate the syncarids that precariously live in this “type locality” feature!

Matt said that he had seen the fish about a year ago in the same place on two occasions, and he thought that it was very strange to see a fish so far inland. He hasn’t see it since and described it as being browny-black in colour, around 8-9cm in length and longer than its other dimensions suggested “with the tail being like a ling”. I suspect that it was most likely a galaxiid (probably introduced to Fossil Cave) but it might be something else entirely, and I hope other divers will keep their eyes open next time they dive the cave so that we can resolve this little mystery! Both James and Matt also reported that Mud Hole (5L97) is now becoming much less siltier due to increased diver traffic, particularly in the flattener which leads into the third bottom room. It is now possible for a few divers to grovel into the small final room (which has not yet been mapped) and to still have a metre’s visibility to aid exit, although the room itself is still extremely silty.

Ewens Ponds (5L159-161) is looking quite good at the moment; a recent visit by myself and my former sharemate from Hong Kong, Sam Lee, found a fairly decent flow through the two races between the ponds as well as some great little “sand boils” on the bottom, both indicating reasonable outflows. Sam also saw a decent-sized freshwater cray, so it looks like Ewens at least is managing pretty well. Some concerns were also recently raised within the cave diving community about the possibility of being banned there, but enquiries with Steve Bourne also quickly dispelled these stories; while a paying permit system of some kind will almost certainly be introduced in the near future, it will mainly serve to better manage the ponds and won’t stop scuba diving there – at least, not yet!..

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Tank Cave (5L230) is still very popular with advanced-level cave divers, and recently the CDAA negotiated the actual purchase of the cave (for a “considerable” sum), which has caused no end of membership discussion. Whether this turns out to be the cave’s saviour or ultimately leads to more degradation as a consequence of “the problems of popularity” remains to be seen. “Superwoman” cave diver Agnes Milowka also recently discovered an incredible 300-odd metres of virgin passage in the cave (fantastic work as always, Ag!), and Lewy undertook some preliminary geological investigations of the highway next to the cave where he and Grant Pearce liaised with the Highways Department and used ground-penetrating radar to see what lay beneath the surface.

After a dive in Iddlebiddy Cave (5L250), Adam reported that some of the fragile clay blocks had suffered some fingermark damage, but on a more positive note Matt reported discovering “...a large room in an area that is 25 metres deep when previously the deepest known part (of the cave) was around 17m”! He named this area the “ Room” because it is deeper than anywhere else in the cave (requiring divers to use more air than in shallower water) and because divers finally have some space in which they can move about after grovelling in very small tunnels to reach its location. He added that he had “only” found 30 metres of virgin passage in Iddlebiddy ... and then went on to discover ANOTHER 25-30 metres of virgin passage in Stinging-Nettle Cave (5L186)!!! Pushing through a silt mound with side-mounted scuba cylinders, he entered an area which “looked like an old river path”, and he suspected that it led one or two metres deeper than the previous deepest point where the “Crazy Czechs” (David and Petra Funda/Fundova) had left their survey tag. Matt plans to return to the cave so that he can note the depths to find out whether it is indeed deeper, and by how much, as it leads underneath the rockpile near the tag. And finally, Nettle-bed Cave (5L290) also appears to be handling its diving traffic well, with very little damage being noted by Adam during a recent dive there.

Mount Gambier continues to hold many, many fascinating secrets, and even after all these years the region continues to be a major draw-card for both recreational and speleologically-inclined cave divers!

Peter Horne. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- INTERSTATE and OVERSEAS Three members found time to get overseas this year. Grant Gartrell joined the ACKMA contingent in Mulu and then went to the Peake District in the UK. Damian Grindley did some caving in Lilburn Cave in the U.S.A. and Ken Smith went diving in some spectacular underwater caves in the Bahamas. Meanwhile, CEGSA members went to Kubla Khan, Honeycomb and Westmoreland Caves at Mole Creek, and another member visited southern Tasmania. Graham Pilkington visited caves at Tuglow and Jaunter earlier in the year. Mark Sefton attended the annual expedition to the Gregory National Park where over 200 km of cave passages have now been surveyed.

Mark Sefton. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-

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FINANCIAL

STATEMENTS

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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT CAVE EXPLORATION GROUP (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) INCORPORATED Period ending 31st December 2010 (Cash Basis)

INCOME 2009 2009 2010 2010 CEGSA Membership (Note 1) 2646.90 2514.10 Full Member 936.00 598.00 Full Country Member 141.00 348.00 Associate 334.90 449.35 Family 870.00 796.75 3 Month Introductory 305.00 250.00 Joining Fee 60.00 72.00 Subscription CEGSA News ASF Levy & Insurance (Note 2) 4967.10 4124.40 Cave Maintenance including Key Hire 142.00 62.00 Donations – Mercedes College 100.00 400.00 32.00 Scotch College 300.00 Others 32.00 Caving Trips Travel Expenses 1590.00 Library & Records Sales 134.00 26.00 Bank Interest – General Account 29.90 955.67 46.10 568.19 - Investment Accounts 925.77 522.09 General Meeting Suppers 224.50 229.85 Sundries – ASF 50th Conference Shirts 60.00 - Proceeds CROP Weekend 155.45 - Proceeds ASF Conference Bank Account 362.89

TOTAL OPERATING INCOME 11120.17 8074.88

Extraordinary Income Capital Proceeds from Investment Account 500.00

TOTAL INCOME 11120.17 8574.88

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EXPENDITURE 2009 2009 2010 2010 CEGSA News & Annual Report 1473.98 1353.75 Printing 918.60 816.70 Envelopes 31.98 63.75 Postage 523.40 473.30 ASF Levy & Insurance (Note 2) 4655.45 4806.10 Aust Post Box Rental 130.00 137.00 Telephone Directory Listing 75.00 80.00 Library – Book & Periodicals Purchases 110.00 110.00 Expenses Records Expenses 41.00 31.00 Annual Subscriptions/Memberships 55.00 55.00 ACKMA 55.00 55.00

CEGSA Web Site (2 years) 178.00 44.00 Members Handbook Expenses General Meeting Suppers & BBQ 296.72 225.96 Treasurer Expenses 6.29 12.53 Membership Expenses 53.70 20.45 Secretary Expenses Cave Maintenance Caving Trips Travel Expenses 1115.00 14.00 Sundries 1309.75 4315.35 A3 Scanner 430.75 ASF Gift Fund- Timor Karst Appeal 1000.00 Prepayments -121.00 121.00 Printing CROP Handbooks 31.35 Constitution Changes Fees 55.00 Records Scanning 2258.00 Data Entry KIDSA/OzKarst 1550.00 CROP Fund Airfare 300.00

TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 9499.89 11095.14

Extraordinary Expense Items: Records Scanning from KIDSA Fund 131.00 412.00

TOTAL EXPENSES 9630.89 11507.14

OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) 1620.28 ( 3020.26 )

Annual Surplus/(Deficit) 1489.28 ( 2932.26 )

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BALANCE SHEET CAVE EXPLORATION GROUP (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) INCORPORATED As At 31st December 2010 (Cash Basis)

ASSETS 2009 2010 CURRENT Cash at Bank – General Account 8458.18 5507.33 Cash at Bank – Investment Accounts 18742.03 18764.12 Petty Cash on Hand – Treasurer 20.00 20.00 Nullarbor Karst Study Grant 1000.00 1000.00 Prepayments 121.00 TOTAL 28341.21 25291.45

LIABILITIES CURRENT Accumulated Membership Fund 25507.44 27127.72 CEGSA 50th Year Book Fund 683.99 683.99 Nullarbor Karst Study Grant 412.00 Unpresented Cheques 117.50 500.00 Surplus/(Deficit) from year’s activity 1620.28 ( 3020.26 ) TOTAL 28341.21 25291.45

CEGSA 50th Year Book Allocation Balance 31/12/2009 683.99

Balance 31/12/2010 683.99

Nullarbor Karst Study Grant Balance 31/12/2009 412.00 Records Expenses -412.00

Balance 31/12/10 NIL

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TREASURERS' STATEMENT

The Income & Expenditure and Balance Sheet have been prepared from a reconciled Cash Book with the Bank Statements that reflect the operations of the Club for the year ended 31st December 2010.

The Income & Expenditure Statement shows an Operating Deficit compared to the 2009 year. This can be accounted for in less interest from the Investment Accounts (which was expected) and increased approved spending for Records scanning (to include maps and newspaper articles) and data entry for KIDSA/OzKarst. Other Operating Income and Expenses have remained stable, with a few increases and decreases. Due to the additional spending an Annual Deficit has occurred this year.

**note1 The CEGSA subscriptions collected in 2010 include $220.00 for the 2011 year.

**note 2 The ASF fees collected in 2010 include $680.00 for the 2011 year. The ASF Levy and Insurance has not changed from the previous year. CEGSA receives the members ASF fee approximately 9 months behind the ASF setting the current year Levy.

The financial standing of the Club has continued to remain sound for the year.

Chris Gibbons. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-

INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT

To the President and Members of the Cave Exploration Group (South Australia) Incorporated

Income and Expenditure Statement and Balance Sheet for the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010

I have audited the Income and Expenditure Statement and the Balance Sheet for 2010. In my opinion the Statement fairly presents the financial transactions of the Group for the period 1st January 2010 to 31st December 2010 and the Balance Sheet fairly presents the financial position of the Group at 31st December 2010.

Scope and Procedures

In order to reach these opinions, my audit has included an examination of invoices received, receipts for payments, supporting records, Bank Current Account Statements, Bank Investment Accounts Statements, Deposit Book, Cheque Book, Receipt Book and the financial reports for 2009.

22 January 2011

33 Mary Kitson St Tel: (02) 6241 4965 WATSON (Mob) 0417 421 941 ACT 2602 Email: [email protected]

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INCOME Sundries Library & Records Sales Extraordinary Income Cave Maintenance incl Key Hire Donations General Meeting Suppers & BBQ Bank Interest ASF Levy & Insurance Levy CEGSA membership 0 100020003000400050006000 PAYMENTS Expenses Under $100 Extraordinary Expenses Sundries General Meeting Suppers & BBQ Aust Post Box Rental ASF Levy & Insurance CEGSA News & Annual Report 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000

Expenses Under $100

Annual Subscriptions CEGSA Web Site Membership Expenses Caving Trip Travel Expenses Treasurer Expenses Records Expenses Telephone Directory Listing

0 20406080100

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MEMBERSHIP

and

MAILING LISTS

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2010 MEMBERSHIP LIST

CF ACKROYD Peter 0108 (H) 03-5382-7447 PO Box 734, HORSHAM Vic 3400 A ADAMS Jonathon 1001 NFP A(LTA) ARBON Paul 0016 NFP Af ASHENDEN Alexander with 0801 Af ASHENDEN Eleanor with 0801 Af MATTHEWS Katrina with 0801 F(Fam) ASHENDEN Peter 0801 (H) 8388-2676 (M) 0414-709-106 P O Box 640, STIRLING SA 5152 [email protected] 303 Pole Road, IRONBANK SA 5153 CL ASLIN Fred 6401 (H) 08-8725-1233 29 Elizabeth St, MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290 F BAKKER Joyce 5801 Unit 36, 10 Rellum Street, Glengowrie Court, GLENGOWRIE SA 5044 A BRENNAN Rob 1002 (H) 8345-4144 (W)8347-4885 47 Minns Street, SEATON SA 5023 M)0414-821-32 [email protected] F(Fam) CHAPMAN Jeanette 9305 (H) 8380-5154 [email protected] with 8109 Section 5530 Lower Hermitage Road, HOUGHTON SA 5131 F(Fam) CHARLESWORTH Ian 9008 (M) 0417-830-356 with 9207 12 Jackson Avenue, STRATHALBYN SA 5255 [email protected] F(Fam) CHARLESWORTH Sue 9207 with 9008 12 Jackson Avenue, STRATHALBYN SA 5255 F CHOI Marie 9408 (H) 8322-0895 (M) 0429-696-299 75 Capella Drive, HALLETT COVE SA 5158 [email protected] CF DEVINE Paul 9906 (M) 0419-934-988 PO Box 66, PALMWOODS Qld 4555 [email protected] Af DIVITO Julien with 0704 Af NICHOLAOU Helen with 0704 Af(LTA) DIVITO Mark 0704 (W) 08-8340-3773 (M) 0403-285-478 13 Balmoral Avenue, NORTH BRIGHTON SA 5048 [email protected] Af(LTA) FIELDER David 0701 (M) 0410-450-496 With 0702 21 Kapoola Avenue, CAMPBELLTOWN SA [email protected] CF FLAVEL Stan 7901 2/3A Harrison Road, Mount Wellington, AUCKLAND CITY NZ P O Box 24, INGLEWOOD SA 5133 [email protected] L GARTRELL Grant 6301 (H) 08-8556-9100 (W) 8556-9100 PO Box 27, MOUNT COMPASS SA 5210 [email protected] F GHEUDE Jules 9504 (M) 0408-400-843 PO Box 1114, PROSPECT EAST SA 5082 F(Fam) GIBBONS Chris 0005 (H) 8258-9847 with 9403 9 Cuthbert Avenue, GULFVIEW HEIGHTS SA 5096 [email protected] F(Fam) GIBBONS Ray 9403 (H) 8258-9847 (F) 8258-2023 with 0005 9 Cuthbert Avenue, GULFVIEW HEIGHTS SA 5096 [email protected] Af(LTA) GORDON Andrea 0702 (M) 0421-613-711 with 0701 21 Kapoola Avenue, CAMPBELLTOWN SA 5074 [email protected] CF(Fam) GRIMES Janeen 9107 (H) 03-5573-4503 with 9106 795 Morgiana Road, HAMILTON Vic 3300 [email protected] CF(Fam) GRIMES Ken 9106 (H) 03-5573-4503 (W) 03-5573-4503 with 9107 795 Morgiana Road, HAMILTON Vic 3300 [email protected] F(Fam) GRINDLEY Amanda 9714 (M) 0424-025-056 with 9610 17 Miller Drive, HAPPY VALLEY SA 5159 [email protected] F(Fam) GRINDLEY Damian 9610

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with 9714 17 Miller Drive, HAPPY VALLEY SA 5159 [email protected] Af GRINDLEY Merrin with 9610 Af REECE Damon with 9610 CL HAMILTON-SMITH Elery 5506 (W) 03-9489-7785 PO Box 36, CARLTON SOUTH Vic 3053 [email protected] F HANKINSON Frank 9404 (H) 8322-4331 (M) 0413-428-078 7 St Helens Court, WOODCROFT SA 5162 [email protected] F HARPER Paul 8802 (H) 8297-8878 (W) 8222-5615 50 Kerr Grant Terrace, SOUTH PLYMPTON SA 5038 [email protected] F HARRIS Harry 0401 (H) 08-8431-5395 14 Cudmore Avenue, TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065 [email protected] F HOEY Lance 8711 (H) 8265-1907 16 Tarana Road, HOPE VALLEY SA 5090 L HORNE Peter 8102 (H) 8295-6031 Unit 3, 9 Muriel Avenue, SOMERTON PARK SA 5044 [email protected] CA(Fam) HOSIE Kym personal information withheld

CF(Fam) HOSIE Paul 9806 (M) 0428-992-109 With 0802 1 Bilcich Gardens, SPEARWOOD WA 6163 [email protected] L JACKSON Athol 5701 (H) 8337-8759 6 Hudson Avenue, ROSTREVOR SA 5073 [email protected] F JANSEN Bart 8806 (H) 8383-7111 PO Box 174, KANGARILLA SA 5157 [email protected] A JOHNSON Dean 0902 (M) 0419-808-163 4 McClure Avenue, REYNELLA SA 5161 [email protected] Af KRAEHENBUEHL Bryce with 8407 F(Fam) KRAEHENBUEHL Janine 9301 (H) 8278-4531 (W) 8278-5477 with 8407 71 Sheoak Road, BELAIR SA 5052 [email protected] F(Fam) KRAEHENBUEHL Peter 8407 (H) 8278-4531 With 9301 71 Sheoak Road, BELAIR SA 5052 [email protected] Af KRAEHENBUEHL Tara with 8407 L LEWIS Ian 6701 (H) 8295-6582 (M) 0427-284-051 c/- 12 McLachlan Avenue, GLENELG NORTH SA 5045 [email protected] L(Fam) MACLUCAS George 8004 (H) 8261-4180 11 Gulfview Parade, VALLEY VIEW SA 5093 [email protected] L(Fam) MACLUCAS June 9209 (H) 8261-4180 with 8004 11 Gulfview Parade, VALLEY VIEW SA 5093 [email protected] A MAXWELL Steve 0904 (M) 0412-342-000 14 Megan Circuit, NAIRNE SA 5252 [email protected] F MCCORMICK Sue 9104 (H) 8363-6163 (M) 0411-264-766 49/220 Greenhill Road, EASTWOOD SA 5063 [email protected] CL METH Max 7101 (H) 8625-2700 1 Morrison Avenue, CEDUNA SA 5690 CL MOLLET Noel 5514 (H) 8575-8030 Woods Well Road Culburra, PO Box 107, CULBURRA SA 5261 CL MOTT Kevin 7401 (H) 8723-1461 (M) 0447-792-601 (W) 8735-1135 18 Reginald Street, MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290 [email protected] A(LTA) NUM Peter 0703 (H) 8555-2868 51 Colman Road, GOOLWA SA 5214 Af PAYNE Maya with 0007 Af PAYNE Mitchel with 0007 F(Fam) PAYNE Pam 9503 (H) 8280-7958 (M) 0427-103-617 with 0007 Lot 568 Tyeka Drive, ONE TREE HILL SA 5114 [email protected] F(Fam) PAYNE Tim 0007 (H)8280-7958 (W)8259-5724 (M 0448-147-927 With 9503 Lot 568 Tyeka Drive, ONE TREE HILL SA 5114 [email protected]

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CF PEARCE Grant 9211 (H) 08-8739-4020 PO Box 115, GLENCOE SA 5291 [email protected] L PILKINGTON Graham 7201 (H) 8395-6713 41 Lindsay Avenue, VALLEY VIEW SA 5093 [email protected] F PLEDGE Neville 6302 (H) 8272-5483 19 Abbottshall Road, HAWTHORN SA 5062 [email protected] A POLLITT David 1005 (M) 0414-609-097 [email protected] F PRUST Phil 7103 NFP CA(LTA) REEDMAN Stuart 0705 (M) 0407-971-296 115 New World Avenue, TREVALLYN Tas 7250 [email protected] CA(LTA) RICHARDSON Tony 0201 (M) 0418-300-531 [email protected] A RODRIGUEZ Daniel 1003 NFP F RUBESSA Eddie 8810 (H) 8336-4775 (M) 0458-727-208 9 Shepherds Lane, CAMPBELLTOWN SA 5074 L SANDERS Fred 5501 (H) 8276-3839 8 Wattlebury Crescent, LOWER MITCHAM SA 5062 Af SEFTON Alistar with 8709 Af(LTA) SEFTON Karin 8710 (H) 8277-9086 with 8709 22 Hogarth Road, PANORAMA SA 5041 [email protected] F(Fam) SEFTON Mark 8709 (H) 8277-9086 (W) 8313-0096 with 8710 22 Hogarth Road, PANORAMA SA 5041 [email protected] Af SEFTON Murray with 8709 L SEXTON Bob 5518 22 Tyne Street, GILBERTON SA 5081 F SKINNER Neville 0601 (H)8296-4142 (W)8186-9256 (M)0411-295-766 23 Arthur Street, SEACLIFF PARK SA 5049 [email protected] F(Fam) SMITH Ken 9210 (W) 8375-1946 (M) 0407-603-118 with 1006 Lot 2 Whitelaw Road, MYPONGA SA 5202 [email protected] A SOMMER Grant 1004 NFP CA(LTA) VANDERLEEST John 0803 NFP A(LTA) WASILEWSKI Steve 0305 (W) 08-8372-3200 PO Box 2412, KENT TOWN SA 5067 Af WOODCOCK Alexander with 8109 F(Fam) WOODCOCK Gary 8109 (H) 8380-5154 (W) 8226-3950 with 9305 Section 5530 Lower Hermitage Road, HOUGHTON SA 5131 [email protected] Af WOODCOCK Russell with 8109 A(Fam) WOODS Cate 1006 with 9210 F WOODWARD Michael 8106 (H) 8337-5200 (M) 0434-924-399 27 Harrow Avenue, MAGILL SA 5072 [email protected] CF ZOLLINGER Reto 9803 NFP

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AXBRIDGE CAVING GROUP c/o Elaine Johnson Westham, WEDMORE Somerset England B528 4UY BLUE MOUNTAINS SPELEOLOGICAL CLUB PO Box 37, GLENBROOK NSW 2773 BRITISH CAVING ASSOCIATION BCRA Library Deposits Holt House, Holt House, Holt Lane, LEA near MATLOCK Derbyshire England DE4 5GQ BRITISH CAVING ASSOCIATION BCRA Library Deposits The Old Methodist Chapel, GREAT HUXLOW Buxton UK SK17 8RG CANBERRA SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC. PO BOX 156, CURTIN ACT 2605 CAVE DIVERS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA PO Box 290, NORTH ADELAIDE SA 5006 CAVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (No Longer exists) 3842 Brookvale Boulevarde, CASTRO VALLEY California USA 94564 CENTRAL WEST CAVING GROUP 605 Jaunter Road, JAUNTER NSW 2787 CHELSEA SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY The Librarian Whitewalls, The Hillside, LLANGATTOCK POWYS UK NP8 ILG CHILLAGOE CAVING CLUB PO Box 92, CAIRNS Qld 4870 CIRCOLO SPELOLOGICO E IDROLDGICO FRIULANO Casella Postale 257, UDINE . Italy I-3310 FIELD NATURALIST SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA GPO Box M1594, ADELAIDE SA 5001 FLINDERS UNIVERSITY SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC. c/o Sports Building, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE SA 5001 FORSCHUNGSGRUPPE HOHLE UND KARST FRANKEN Schloss Almoshof, Almopschofer Hauptstrasse 51, NURMBERG . Germany D-90427 GRUPO BAMBUI DE PESQUISAS ESPELEOLOGICAS Av.Nossa Senhora do Carmo, 221 – 307/308, BELO HORIZONTE MG Brazil 30.360-740 HIGHLAND CAVING GROUP PO Box 54, GEORGES HALL NSW 2198 HILLS SPELEOLOGY CLUB LTD 3 Heights Place, HORNSBY HEIGHTS NSW 2077 ILLAWARRA SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC. PO Box 94, UNANDERRA NSW 2526 INTERNATIONALE DE SPELEOLOGIE Verband Osterreichischer Hohlenforscher, Obere Donaustrasse 97/1/61 Wien Austria A-1020 KEMPSEY SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1645 Hickeys Creek Road, WILLAWARRIN NSW 2440 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY CAVING GROUP c/- Sports Association, Macquarie Uni., NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 MOLE CREEK CAVING CLUB PO Box 209, MOLE CREEK Tas 7304 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CAVE DIVING PO Box 14492, GAINESVILLE Florida USA 32604 NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Cave Avenue, HUNTSVILLE Alabama USA 35810 SOUTH AFRICAN SPELAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PO Box 157, MODDERFONTEIN . South Africa 1645 SOUTHERN TASMANIAN CAVERNEERS GPO Box 416, SANDY BAY Tas 7005

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